Subplots: Nick and Jordan

Type of conflict: Person vs. Person

Inciting event: meets Jordans at Gatsby's party
With her date because she is smarter than he is so she has the upper hand.

Raising Action: Nick asks Jordan out
Nick remembers a rumor about jordans cheating in a golf tournament, but doesn't care though he claims that Jordans is incurably dishonest.
Jordans says Ittakes two to make an accident and the she likes nick becasue he is careful, while she is not.
Nick realizes the needs to offical break is off with some girl, and tennis player, back home
Jordan tells nick the back story about Gatsby and Daisy and Nick and Daisy
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Type of conflict: Person vs society, Person Vs. Slef
Conflict: Gatsby has spent five years trying to earn grand riches so he can win Daisy back. He is slightly disillusioned by the memory of Daisy and wants the past to be relived. Part of the conflict is that he is unacceptable by part of society because he is new money, he hasn't been educated at a grand University and his money is "gangster" money. the other part of his conflict is that he is existing in a dream and beliefs all he has to do is present himslef to Daisy and She'll say, "Tomi never loved you." and run away with Gatsby back to Louisville to live happily ever after

Exposition: Nick sees Gatsby alone in his yard with his hands stretched out across the water at the green light at the end of the dock. He is reaching for Daisy's house

Inciting: Nick accepts Gatsby's invitation to come to Gatsby's party

Raising Action Nick meets Gatsby and begins to learn about Gatsb'y past
Gatsby calls on nick

journal entry on chapter 3.

Summary- This chapter begins with Nick telling use that Gatsby has parties all of the time. That they are huge parties, lots of people and food and alcohol. Everyone goes to them. There is a full orchestra and dancers. In this chapter, Nick has been invited to one of these parties and because he was invited, he will go, though he wouldn't if he had not been invited. After sitting at the bar alone for awhile, Nick notices Jordan and hangs out with her during the party. He mets a lot of people, mostly friends of Jordans, and hears rumors about Gatsby. After dinner Jordan and
Ncik go and look for Gatsby because neither of them have met him before. They looked at the bar, and looked over the party from the top of the steps but couldn't find him so they went to look in the Library. In the library they did not fine Gatsby but a man who was inspecting the books, amazed by how many there were and that they were not fake. After talking to the Owl Eye man, Jordan and Nick went back outside, were Nick starts talking to a man he doesn't know, only to find out that it is Jay Gatsby. during their talk, Gatsby had to leave to take a call inw hich time Nick asked Jordan about Gatsby but she hardly knew him. during their talk, A butler comes for Jordan, telling her Gatsby wants to talk to her. While Nick is alone, he goes inside and listens to a girl who is singing but crying at the same time. because, and he learns that she had a fight with a man who said he was her husband, in fact a lot of girls in the room were having fights with man who said they were their husbands. After about an hour, Nick is about to leave when Jordan and Gatsby come out of a room. Jordan briefly talks to Nick before saying her good byes. and then Nick say good bye to Gatsby. As Nick walks out he sees there has been a crash and watches the commotion for a little before going home. Nick ends the chapter by telling us other things that have happened, besides the parties he has attended, like work, and his relationship with girls. He hung out with Jordan too.

Themes: Confusion
realsim
Drinking

Characters: Jordan Baker- a golfer and friend of Nick, Nick- the main character, new to the fast life, twins in the Yellow dresses- Friends of Jordan, Jay Gatsby-Host of the party, young, no one really knows the truth about him, Owl Eye- Confused guy who is first seen in the library and is also in the crashed car, butler- Gatsby's servant,

Symbols: the party

Allusion: Follies

Foreshadow: Gatsby talking to Jordan,

Symbols: Books, Parties

chapter two- theparty of people trying to live a dream that is not going to happen

Settings- East Egg- success, old money
West Egg- new wealth
Valley Ashes- Fail
New York- Where dreams meet reality

The Follies- Dancing girls

Vocab words jan. 5th

Armistice- N. A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce
There was an armistice in the water gun fight after a kid got hurt.

Debutante- N. A young woman making a debut into society.
the young debutante got in a fight at one of her lunch ins.

Destitute- Adj. without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
The man was in a destitute state and probably wouldn't survive the winter.

Inebriated- Adj. To make drunk; intoxicate
the inebriated boy could not drive so he called for a taxi.

Mesmerize- V. to spellbind, fasinate
the girl was mesmerized by the party and lights she didn't see tha man and ran into him.

Sardonic-Adj. Characterized by bitter or scornful derision(ridicule, mockery); mocking; cynical; sneering
The boy had very few friends because of his sardonic ways.

Decadent- Adj. characterized by decadence (the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state), esp. culturally or morally
The decadent man used to be a famous actor but now lived with his mother

Rendezvous- N. an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place
The boy and girl made an rendezvous for lunch

Distraught- Adj. Distracted; deeply agitated
The distraught man soon became and aloholic.

Risque- Adj. daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; offcolor
The risque headband the girl was wearing made the ref question himself whether or not he should tell her about it since is was a dark navy blue, not black like the rest of the girls.
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18th Amendment- 1919; Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

19th Amendment- 1920; Gave women the right to vote

Discusion questions 40- last

1.) We learn the Jim is willing to help others even if it means risking his freedom. he is not selfish and cares about others.

2.) The speech causes the men to stop cursing Jim. I think it is good that they are showing some pympathy to a black perosn, but they should feed him more.

3.) The bullet significe the death of romanticsm, but Twain has Tom keep it to show how people are iggnorant and never learn.

4.) He is going to leave and head out to the Indian territories. We wants to live wild because the society he lives in is corrupt and has a lot of issues. He wants a different way of living.

5.) I thought this novel was written well and different then a lot of books I have read in the past. Yes for the most part ir represents the Realist tradition as we have discussed. I think the the fact the Huck was so young and still learning made him a good narrator. It made it so you could see deffinate changes. Also, because of his age, he had not been fully corrupt, also bbecause of the way he grew up, and so he was capable of change. Huck was also truthful to what he knew. I didn't find any problems with Huck in this book. I thought he was a good narrator. If there were another narrator, I dont believe the story would be as good. Twains romantism vs realism wouldn't come out as good and you wouldn't feel like you were as in the novel as you do now. This novel is made pretty personal, and with another narrator it would lose that aspect.

Chapters 36-39, written asignment

At the beginning of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we meet a character named Tom Sawyer. A boy who everyone follows, including Huck. The first Episode of this novel is about Tom and Huck but when Huck begins his adventure down the Mississippi, Tom is left behind and almost forgotten until he reappears in chapter 33. Tom though, was not brought back without a purpose, and his purpose was to be the way that Mark Twain could show his dislike for romantic literture.
In order to get what Twain is doing, you have to realize that because Tom acts off his emotions and imagination, he represents the romantic side. Where as Huck acts on reason, representing realism. He uses this to to show the difference and how foolish and idiotic romantics are. So whenever Tom is around, the theme romantic vs realism will appear and Twain will show the difference between the two and how romanticism is ridiculous. Which is seen in chapters 35- 39 when Tom comes back into Huck's adventure.
There were many ways in which you could see Twains distain for Romantice fiction in Chapters 36- 39. For one, Tom is back so you know Twain is going to ridicule Romanticism some how. Another way you can tell, is Huck's idea of getting Jim out is quick, safe and simple. This is because he doesn't want to have that chance of getting caught. He learned after trying to have an adventure on the Walter Scott that real life adventures are scary and you only do what you have to do to get out safe. When Tom "helps" Huck rescue Jim, Tom has to throwing in a lot of ridiculous ideas, like making Jim write scribbles on the walls and grind stone and having him sleep with snakes and rats. Tom wanted an adventure so he through in all of these little things to make the rescue more heroic and dangerous. Tom doesn't ever think of the best thing or about Jim and how he probably just wants to be out of there, Tom just wants it to be dangerous and him to look like a hero. He also gets all of his ideas from romantic books like Baron Trenck, Casanova, or Benvenuto Chelleeny, where the characters are heros. Twain's disdain for romantic fiction was evident in the way he made all of plans ridiculouly pointless.

Disscusion questions 31- 35

2.) He won't go to hell for helping someone.
3.) It makes you think the place is like death and gloomy.
4.) To Huck, Providence is god or a being in heaven, who watches him and knows what he is up too and decides right and wrong. Yes I believe miss Watson would agree.
5.) When Mrs. Phelps if anyone was killed, Huck says no, but then he says a black person was. They don't consider a black person a person and I didn't think they wouldn't care that a black person died.
6.)Change of Identity (Huck becomes another person). Realism vs. Romatisim ( Huck is a realistic person but he is playing Tom who is a romantic). Gulibilty/ ignorance (Mr Phelps is gulibale in that he believes Huck and ignorant in that he can't tell that it is not Tom.)
7.) Tom wants an adventure while Huck just wants to save Jim.
8.)It shows that Huck cares for others, even when they have been horrible to him, and that he doesn't think people should be punished that way because it is wrong, even when the people are bad people.
9.) He has been telling Huck to steal a lot of stuff, but when Huck takes a Watermelon Tom gets mad at Huck, not somehting you would expect.
10.)Tom represents society and Huck wants to follow society's ways to fit in.